Privacy policy
Privacy Policy
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We take data protection and information security very serious. The effective management of all personal data, including security and confidentiality, is the heart of our business and naturally underpins our practices and processes.
This privacy notice informs you about the type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data we collect, use and process as a part of our website and its functions and content as well as our external online presences, such as our Social Media Profiles (the “Services”).
This notice applies to you, the User of our Services and us the provider of the Services and governs the processing of your personal data in context of our Services and business.
Name and contact details of the responsible person:
Clothed In Blessings
www.clothedinblessings.com
E-mail: team@clothedinblessings.com
Clothed In Blessings has voluntarily adapted Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) to its data processing procedures (e.g. collection, processing and transmission). The following provides you with an overview of the type of data collected and how it is used and passed on, the security measures Clothed In Blessings takes to protect your data and how you can exercise your rights.
What are the relevant legal bases for processing your data?
The following informs you about the legal basis of us processing your data and unless the legal basis is not specifically mentioned, the following applies:
Consent – This is where we have asked you to provide explicit permission to process your data for a particular purpose.
Contract – This is where we process your information to fulfil a contractual arrangement we have made with you.
Answering your business enquiries – This is where we process your information to reply to your messages, e-mails, posts, calls, etc.
Legitimate Interests - This is where we rely on our interests as a reason for processing, generally this is to provide you with the best products and service in the most secure and appropriate way. Of course, before relying on any of those legitimate interests we balance them against your interests and make sure they are compelling enough and will not cause any unwarranted harm.
Legal Obligation – This is where we have a statutory or other legal obligation to process the information, such as for the investigation of crime.
Vital interests – This is where we process your information for communications about security, privacy and performance improvements of our services. Or for establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights.
Collection, use and storage of personal data
When you use the online offer, Clothed In Blessings collects different data from you, partly also so-called personal data. This is information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter "data subject").
Visiting the Clothed In Blessings website in general
When visiting the Clothed In Blessings website, you transmit data to our web server (due to technical necessity) via your internet browser. The following data is recorded during an ongoing connection for communication between your internet browser and our web server:
- Date and time of the request
- Name of the requested file
- Page from which the file was requested
- Access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.)
- Web browser and operating system used
- Complete IP address of the requesting computer
- Amount of data transferred
For reasons of technical security, in particular to defend against attempted attacks on our web server, this data is stored by us for a short period of time. It is not possible for us to draw conclusions about individual persons on the basis of this data. The legal basis for the storage is our legitimate interest.
Further personal information is only collected if you provide it voluntarily, for example in the context of an enquiry or registration. Depending on the area concerned, Clothed In Blessings uses the personal data provided by you to answer your enquiries, to process your order and for the purpose of technical administration of the websites. In detail, the use in the respective areas as follows:
Online Shop
When you place an order in our online shop, we store the following information in order to fulfil the contract concluded between you and Clothed In Blessings or to carry out pre-contractual measures:
- a) Order without setting up a customer account
When placing an order in the online shop, all data necessary for execution and processing are requested by means of mandatory fields: Your full name, your e-mail address, your phone number, your address (billing address and, if applicable, different delivery address). Your data will only be used to process your order.
- b) Customer account / registration
It is also possible for you to register for your purchase at Clothed In Blessings. For this purpose, you can choose a password together with your e-mail address, both of which will enable you to log in more easily without having to enter your data again when you make a purchase at a later date. Clothed In Blessings stores the data you enter to set up a customer account through which your orders are recorded, executed and processed. Clothed In Blessings will hold your data for further orders as long as you maintain your registration. You have the right to access, correct or delete your registration data at any time.
Contact Form and our Request a Featured Family Feature
If you contact Clothed In Blessings via a contact form or our Request a Featured Family Feature on the Clothed In Blessings website, the data you provide will be stored so that your message can be forwarded to the correct contact person. This is done to process your request. Your data provided via a contact form will not be used for any other purposes, in particular not for advertising.
When do we disclose your Personal Data?
We may share your information with organisations that help us provide the services described in this policy and who may process such data on our behalf and in accordance with this policy, to support this website and our services. This will only be done on the basis of a legal authorisation.
Also, if you have consented to it, or where there we have a legal obligation to do so or on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. when using agents, hosting providers, tax, business and legal advisors, customer care, accounting, billing and shipping services that allow us to perform our contractual obligations, administrative tasks and duties efficiently and effectively).
If we commission third parties to process data on the basis of a so-called "contract processing agreement", this is done on the basis of Art. 28 DSG.
In relation to information obtained about you from your use of our website, we may share a cookie identifier and IP data with analytic and advertising network services providers to assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website which is subject to our Cookies Policy.
We may also disclose information in other circumstances such as when you agree to it or if the law, a Court order, a legal obligation or regulatory authority ask us to. If the purpose is the prevention of fraud or crime or if it is necessary to protect and defend our right, property or personal safety of our staff, the website and its users.
Data retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, the data processed by us will be deleted or restricted in their processing. If the data is not deleted because they are required for other and legally permissible purposes, their processing is restricted. This means that the data is blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for commercial or tax law reasons.
General technical organisational measures
Clothed In Blessings has taken a variety of security measures to protect personal information to an appropriate extent and adequately. All information held by Clothed In Blessings is protected by physical, technical and procedural measures that limit access to the information to specifically authorised persons in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The Clothed In Blessings website is behind a software firewall to prevent access from other networks connected to the Internet. In addition, only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. These employees are trained in security and privacy practices and treat your information confidentially.
Secure data transmission
The transmission of your personal information during an order transaction in the online shop is encrypted using industry standard Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") technology, (SSL encryption version 3).
Credit card information
Any credit card information you provide will not be stored by Clothed In Blessings, but will be encrypted and collected directly from the payment service provider (ShopPay, Google Pay, PayPal)via hypertext transfer protocol secure ("https").
Passwords
You should never disclose your password for accessing our customer portal to any third party and you should change it regularly. If you want to leave your customer account in the online shop, you should press the logout and close your browser to prevent anyone from gaining unauthorised access to it.
Online presence in social media
On the basis of our legitimate interests, we maintain online presences within social networks and platforms in order to be able to communicate with customers, interested parties and users active there and to inform them about our services there. When calling up the respective networks and platforms, the terms and conditions and data processing guidelines of their respective operators apply.
Unless otherwise stated, we process the data of users if they communicate with us within the social networks and platforms, e.g. write posts on our online presences or send us messages.
Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
This website is hosted by an external service provider (Shopify). The personal data collected on this website is stored on Shopify's servers. This may include, but is not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contractual data, contact data, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website.
Shopify is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing visitors and users and in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider.
Shopify will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfill its service obligations and follow our instructions regarding this data.
Social Media Functions and Widgets
Within our online offer, functions and widgets of FaceBook, Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube are integrated. When you click on or use any of those functions and widgets, your browser establishes a direct connection to FaceBook, Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube. The function or widget then transmits log data to FaceBook, Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube. This log data may contain your IP address, the address of the visited websites, type and settings of the browser, date and time of the request, your usage of FaceBook, Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube, as well as cookies. Those may also include the display of our posts, the link to our profile, the possibility to interact with the posts and functions, as well as to measure users reach (so-called conversion measurement).
Integration Of Services And Contents Of Third Parties
We use within our online offer on the basis of our legitimate interests, content or services offered by third-party providers in order to integrate their content and services.
This always requires that the third-party providers of this content are aware of your IP address, since the content or service could not send to your browser without the IP address. The IP address is thus required for the display of this content and we endeavor to use providers that only use your IP address for the delivery of the content or services. However, Third-party providers may also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also known as "web beacons") for statistical or marketing purposes. The "pixel tags" can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information may also be stored in cookies on the user's device and may contain, among other things, technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, time of visit and other information about the use of our online offer, as well as be linked to such information from other sources.
Changes
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
Contact us
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email at team@clothedinblessings.com.